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Our Farm: Four Seasons with Five Kids on One Family's Farm
Michael J. Rosen (2008), 144 pages
Audience: 3rd Grade - 7th Grade
What would it be like to live for a year on a small Ohio farm? The five Bennet children give firsthand accounts of everything from baling hay to raising chickens to playing knee football in the loft. Illustrated with many beautiful photographs, this is a humorous and charming introduction to farm life and the realities of a world far away from suburbs and shopping malls.
Reviewed by: msp
Date read: 9/30/2010
ISBN-10: 1581960670
ISBN-13: 9781581960679
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Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out
Various (2008), 41 pages
Illustrated by David McCullough
Audience: 3rd Grade - 8th Grade
Category: Nonfiction
The White House, in American history, is shared by 108 leading children's authors, and illustrators, who have contributed to a collection of essays, personal accounts, historical fiction, and poetry. The book also includes some personal accounts from former residents of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Reviewed by: sc
Date read: 4/14/2009
ISBN-10: 076362067X
ISBN-13: 9780763620677
Owen & Mzee: The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship
Isabella Hatkoff (2006), 40 pages
Illustrated by Peter Greste
Audience: K - 5th Grade
Category: Nonfiction
This is the true story of two great friends: a baby hippo named Owen, and a 130-year-old giant tortoise named Mzee. In December 2004, a frightened young hippo, separated from his family by the devastating tsunami in Southeast Asia, adopted an ancient Aldabra tortoise as his 'mother.' The tortoise, for years a loner, accepted the baby hippo as his own, and they are now inseparable. Their unexpected story has captured hearts everywhere, and shows the power of friendship even in the face of tragedy.
Reviewed by: sc
Date read: 4/13/2009
ISBN-10: 0439829739
ISBN-13: 9780439851138
The book offers an intriguing look at the life of an owl, from egg to owlet to fierce bird of prey. Owls have powerful claws called talons, very important to them as hunters. Of the 140 different kinds of owls, 21 live in North America. Most owls hunt at night, but, day or night, they can see much better than people. How these night creatures can fly, and do so silently to capture their prey, are answered in the book. If you would like to know more information about owls, READ THIS BOOK!
Reviewed by: sc
Date read: 4/13/2009
ISBN-10: 0823420140
ISBN-13: 9780823420148
Panda Kindergarten
Joanne Ryder (2009), 32 pages
Illustrated by Katherine Feng
Audience: Preschool - 3rd Grade
In this book, photographed at the Wolong Nature Reserve in China, sixteen baby pandas are shown playing, eating, napping, and being cuddled by their panda mothers and their human caretakers. Even though a panda can be seen in some zoos, all pandas belong to China and are on loan to the zoos. This is a delightful book of photographs and tells a perfectly wonderful story of the life of young pandas. My favorite photo was of the sixteen pandas napping.
Awards nominated: Monarch Award Nominee 2012
Reviewed by: cjones
Date read: 4/13/2011
ISBN-10: 9780060578503
ISBN-13: 9780060578503
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